Fuel smuggling causes shortages and spiking prices
Smugglers are exploiting a growing margin between government-subsidized fuel and market prices in an illicit trade that is squeezing Iraq's fuel supply and costing the government billions.
North Oil Police make arrests in a March 11, 2022, raid of a smuggling operation outside of Kirkuk. (Source: North Oil Police media office)
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